“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.” ~ Fight Club As human beings, there is one certainty in this life: it will end. Some lives sooner than others, some more quickly and painlessly than others, some with more tragedy or dignity than others. But, regardless of the details, everyone […]
When Jay Cincotta was a young boy, his Uncle Anthony hung himself — but it was never spoken of. Suicide had a stigma in his Italian family and it was years before Jay even learned how his uncle died. Decades later, Jay’s younger brother, Tom, hung himself. In shock and grief, Jay reflected upon how […]
Two weeks ago ABC’s 20/20 came out to Parkesburg and filmed me on site at the funeral home for about an hour and a half. Somebody at the studio had been reading my blog and thought I’d fit into a segment called “True Confessions.” As a condition to the interview, I asked the producer to […]
In the epigram for his (in)famously frightening novel, Pet Sematary, Stephen said: “Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.” Yet in our age of hyper media saturation, this does not seem to be so. King wrote those words long before the Internet connected the darkest corners of the planet, before there was a […]
Here’s our adoption journey video. You may recognize some of the clips from prior videos I’ve posted, but the majority of the footage is fresh footage, including the adoption ceremony itself. I have a favor to ask you. Even if you don’t know us personally, please advocate for both the adoption community and our personal […]